My surgery is Feb 13. Im starting to have doubts like should i try another diet and be more dedicated to excercising before this. Do i want to give up so many foods for the rest of my life. I'm starting to get discouraged. Is there any words of wisdom out there?

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Your chances of keeping weight you lose off on your own are somewhere between 2-4%. Surgery improves those odds by a lot. It's not a guarantee and still requires a lot of effort on your part, but you'll have a decent chance which you won't have otherwise.

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The biggest part of success in this journey is changing your relationship with food. If your biggest concern is having to "give up so many foods for the rest of [your] life," then you should think about the hold food has over you before you make any final decisions.

I lost 99 pounds during my six month insurance-required pre-op diet program. But even with that kind of success, I knew that I needed this sleeve as a tool to help me lose the other half of the excess weight and then to maintain. Losing weight is easy, but, unfortunately, gaining it back is easier.

I'll never regret having the surgery. I'd urge you to follow through with the surgery IF you are willing to put in the work, and to change your relationship with food.

Good luck!

Only you can decide if this right for you. For myself, and this is a common refrain I've read on this board, is that my only regret is not doing it sooner.

I felt exactly the same way you did before surgery, I was worried I'd miss my favorite foods, I did all my "food funerals", saying goodbye to all the stuff I loved - again, I have ZERO regrets.

A few things. First, one thing I read was that many people post surgery have like a psychological change in their attitude toward food. It's not just a physical inability to eat more than your sleeve will hold. It's a reduction or elimination in craving the unhealthy stuff you used to eat. I didn't believe it, but it happened to me.

I used to love Love LOVE pizza. Easily my favorite food. I'd eat it a few times a week, and if I had it for lunch and my wife wanted it for dinner we'd eat it for dinner. During my two-week liquid diet pre surgery, I really missed it. Post surgery, it's like a switch has been flipped inside me. I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to eat pizza any more. Zero. When I think about it, I remember how much I enjoyed it. If I see a nice slice, I think "that looks yummy". But I don't want it anymore. I've even made frozen pizzas for my kids and when the leave some slices over, in the old days I would have gobbled them up, now I just put them in the fridge. There is no desire to have it.

And the same goes for all the other garbage I used to enjoy. I don't crave fast food, junk food, Snacks, etc.

I'm looking up recipes all the time and trying out new things. I just bought an Instant Pot and over the past two nights I made really good country style ribs with some barbecue sauce (zero carbs except the sauce and high protein), and tonight I had Honey Teriyaki chicken which was phenomenal. A few months ago I would just run out to the pizza place or burger king or wherever, or microwave some frozen crap. Now I don't even want that stuff.

I wish you luck in whatever you choose to do.

I have the same feeling. I am 92 kilo and 158 cm hight 34 years old and mom for 3 children. I do not know is it right decision to be sleeved i failed to loose wheight by diet or gym the only things which makes me loose weight is slimmings capsulles that contain sibotramine . Which i stopped using them ... i am afraid to face troubles and problems like vomiting or any bad thing else... anyone has an advice????????

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I also go back and forth but I'm just tired of the up and down, diets, losing the same 20lbs to gain hem back I just need this push I'm also scared but from what I've seen & read most people do go back to a basically normal life & diet after some time just in smaller portions

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